Byron Dorgan
Byron Dorgan
Byron Leslie Dorganis a former United States Senator and United States Congressman from North Dakota and currently serves as a senior policy advisor for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox LLP. He served 12 years in the U.S. House and 18 years in the Senate. He was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for 16 years, first as Assistant Democratic Floor Leader and then as Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Indian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1942
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We have a constitutional responsibility to use our heads, our hearts and our minds to make good decisions about the future of this country.
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We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.
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We're trying to get through all of this, to understand it, ... Northwest has been a good carrier for North Dakota for many decades, but they are dominant in our state, and so changes they make can have a profound impact on North Dakota and its economy.
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There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
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These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,
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The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.
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I've always understood that appointments to the Supreme Court were for a lifetime, but an appointment to be independent counsel is not. It's time for this to end.
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Complaints that the selection process was inadequate are significant and come from people in a position to know the facts, ... I think such an investigation is not only appropriate but very much needed.
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There's nothing normal or fair about any of these methods.
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Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,
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I think this is a seed bed for substantial growth and opportunities in our region,
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We need this because I believe the current profits are the highest they have ever been, and at the same time the oil companies are accumulating all this gain, there is a lot of pain for consumers,
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The American consumer should shed no tears at Mr. Crawford's resignation, ... The fact is, he took the side of the pharmaceutical industry and against consumers at virtually every opportunity.
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You know, I come from a rural state, I grew up around guns, ... As a teenager I had a rifle and shotgun, so ...